"Honestly, I'm just really, really nervous," Borgeson says about joining the Freeride World Tour. "To have something you've been thinking about for years, wanting to do, your goal, and then you get there? It's a crazy feeling to be doing what you want to do."

"I would love to win the Freeride World Tour," Borgeson says. "But I really just want to live somewhere that receives copious amounts of snow, ski with my friends all winter and make sweet movies to stoke the kids. If that doesn't work out, I kind of want to be a guide. Or there's always ski patrolling."

"Honestly, I'm just really, really nervous," Borgeson says about joining the Freeride World Tour. "To have something you've been thinking about for years, wanting to do, your goal, and then you get there? It's a crazy feeling to be doing what you want to do."

"I would love to win the Freeride World Tour," Borgeson says. "But I really just want to live somewhere that receives copious amounts of snow, ski with my friends all winter and make sweet movies to stoke the kids. If that doesn't work out, I kind of want to be a guide. Or there's always ski patrolling."

The Winter Ahead

Chip Kalback

This winter, Colorado native and up-and-coming freeskier Ian Borgeson, 20, will begin his career on the Freeride World Tour, the most elite big-mountain competition series in skiing.